WORLD HEADLINES 5/19/15, Middle East Edition: 200 Latest Breaking News and Top Stories

The State Department said that the United States is seeking cooperation with Russia and the international community to ensure the political resolution of the Syrian crisis and the success in the fight against extremist groups in Syria.

Official investigations into attacks against Palestinians by Jewish settlers do not result in criminal charges, and Israeli police are indifferent about such assaults, the human rights group Yesh Din said Monday. The group, which tracks ...

The Iraqi army and thousands of Shiite militiamen on Tuesday prepared to fight Islamic State (IS) group insurgents who seized the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi at the weekend in the biggest defeat for government forces in nearly a year.

Faced with calls for quick action after the deaths of hundreds of migrants on the Mediterranean this year, the European Union agreed Monday to set up a naval mission to crack down on smuggling rings at sea. European Union foreign policy ...

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State carried out 25 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, including eight on Ramadi, which had been taken over by terrorist group over the weekend, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Mon...

Former foreign minister says allegations that Tehran was behind attack that killed 85 in Buenos Aires are ‘unfounded, false’ and a ‘lie’ A former Iranian foreign minister and another ex-official have denied Tehran’s involvement in the 19...

Umm Sayyaf captured in special forces operation inside Syria No word on whether detainee will be tried in US or handed over to Iraq The US has still not revealed its intentions for its first high-profile Islamic State detainee, two days ...

Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign affairs adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a trip to Beirut praised the "victories" by the Shiite Hezbollah movement."We are filled with pride and appreciation when we see that...

SANAA, Yemen — Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck targets in Yemen on Monday and ground clashes resumed, bringing a sharp end to a five-day cease-fire in the conflict and raising fears that a humanitarian disaster would deepen.R...

They escaped snipers, aerial bombardment and shelling back home in Yemen, only to end up facing a new and bewildering struggle: Surviving as refugees in a rudimentary camp in Djibouti on a remote coastal stretch where shelter from a puni...

The conference in Riyadh for Yemeni national dialogue began this week. An invitation to attend was extended to all parties, including those linked to the party of ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the General People's Congress, as wel...

Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran's foreign minister in 1994 and current foreign affairs adviser to the country's supreme leader, described allegations of Iranian involvement in the attack that killed 85 people and injured hundreds &quo...

Hundreds of Israeli Ethiopian Jews and activists held a rally on Monday evening in Tel Aviv to protest against alleged racism, an AFP journalist said.The march passed off without incident under the watch of dozens of security officers, a...

The BBC has demanded an explanation from Qatar for an incident where its reporters were detained for two days while investigating the conditions of migrant workers brought in to work on infrastructure projects ahead of the 2022 FIFA Worl...

United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in a new report that the worsening situation in Yemen could pave the way for jihadist movements through Somalia. Ban’s remarks come amid the escalating crisis in Yemen as a five-day ce...

Companies have two weeks to request work permits for their foreign workers, or risk facing punitive measures, the Labor Ministry announced Monday, warning against laying off Lebanese to replace them with low-paid foreigners.

Egypt’s ousted president Mohammad Mursi, already jailed for 20 years for inciting violence against protesters, faces the death penalty Saturday for espionage and jailbreak nearly two years after his overthrow.

Turkish automaker Tofas halted production at its main factory on Monday, as a protest against working conditions intensified and threatened to embarrass President Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling AK Party weeks before a parliamentary election.

The Islamic State jihadist group fired a barrage of rockets on residential neighborhoods in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, killing five civilians including two children, a monitoring group said Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human ...

The Palestinian Authority said Monday it had asked the International Criminal Court to set a date for submitting the case files pertaining to the settlements and war crimes lawsuits against the Zionist occupation to the court.

Shiite militias converged on Ramadi Monday in a bid to recapture it from jihadists who dealt the Iraqi government a stinging blow by overrunning the city in a deadly three-day blitz. The loss of the capital of Iraq's largest province was...

Turkey’s presidential spokesman said on Monday that the Middle East would be thrown into turmoil if death sentences handed down in Egypt to former president Mohammad Mursi and other senior figures were carried out.

A junior British serviceman who published allegations of safety and security lapses around Britain's submarine-based nuclear missile defense system said Monday he would hand himself in and was expecting to be jailed. Able Seaman William ...

he Iraqi Prime Minister ordered on Sunday the Popular Mobilization Forces to liberate the city of Ramadi seized by terrorists of the so-called ’Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group.

Units of the army and the armed forces on Sunday launched wide-scale military operations against the Takfiri terrorist organizations across the country, destroying their dens and vehicles and killing scores of their members.

Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead an Egyptian policeman while two suspects in a failed bomb attack targeting a judge were killed in a shoot-out with police, officials said Monday. Militants have carried out regular attacks on policemen and...

Fluttering flags displayed a black eagle and a machete, the symbol of Burundi's ruling party, as cheering supporters of President Pierre Nkurunziza celebrated the crushing of a coup. On Wednesday, after three weeks of street protests aga...

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea Monday of possible fresh sanctions as he slammed Kim Jong-Un\’s \"egregious\" leadership with its reliance on reckless provocation and \"grotesque\" executions.\r\n

Immediately after the truce ended in Yemen, the US-Saudi warplanes launched attacks on Sunday on several locations in Aden southern city, targeting the Presidential palace and a military base for the special forces.

The fall of Ramadi has scuppered Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's efforts to build a credible cross-sectarian force to fight the Islamic State group, analysts said Monday. The commander-in-chief had been keen, with strong U.S. supp...

PARIS: A French court Monday cleared two police officers of failing to help two youths electrocuted in 2005, whose deaths led to three weeks of rioting in France’s downtrodden suburbs. The violent deaths of Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Ben...

MADRID: Spanish police say they have arrested five people suspected of trying to force a Moroccan immigrant to sell one of his kidneys for 6,000 euros ($7,000). A police statement on Monday said the man tried to pull out of the deal whil...

(IraqiNews.com) The Pentagon said that the U.S.-led international coalition would support Iraqi forces to retake the city of Ramadi if it fell in the hands of the ISIS militants. Pentagon spokesman Elissa Smith stated, “Ramadi has been c...

Bujumbura: Burundi’s president sacked his defence and foreign minister on Monday after a failed coup bid, as hundreds of protesters defied warnings to end demonstrations and resumed weeks of anti-government street marches. Protesters opp...

SKOPJE: Macedonian opposition supporters set up a protest camp outside the offices of embattled Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski as thousands of his supporters were expected to turn out for a counter rally on Monday night. More than 20,000...

MOSCOW: Russia on Monday managed on a second attempt to restart the engines of a Progress spacecraft attached to the International Space Station (ISS) and shift the station’s orbit. The success of the manoeuvre is a much-needed scrap of ...

(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source within the police force in Baghdad said Monday, that 5 civilians have been killed and two others were hurt in two bomb blasts in southern Baghdad. The source told IraqiNews.com, “This afternoon, two imp...

(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – A source in Anbar province announced on Monday, that the security forces, al-Hashed al-sha’bi Militia and tribal fighters are besieging ISIS elements in the city of Ramadi. The source said in an interview fo...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Israeli army and police on Monday arrested seven Palestinians, including four teenagers and a mother, during separate raids in Bethlehem (Bayt Lahm) and Jerusalem (al-Quds), local sources announced.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Yemeni people plan to stage a major rally in the capital city of Sana'a on Monday in condemnation of the Saudi aggression against Yemen and its blockade of aid deliveries to the impoverished country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati condemned the crimes committed in the name of Islam by the ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq, and said such terrorist acts aim to taint the image of Islam in the world.

Islamabad, May 18, IRNA – Pakistani senior analyst Lieutenant General Talat Masood on Monday said that the news reports of western media that Saudi Arabia is said to have taken the 'strategic decision' to acquire nuclear weapons from all...

The bombing of election offices of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the southern cities of Adana and Mersin on May 18 has added to already rising political tension ahead of Turkey’s June 7 general election

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Syrian expert of strategic affairs underlined that the Saudi regime is caught in the quagmire of Yemen and has no option but extending the ceasefire in the Arab country to hide its defeat.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tens of thousands of people forced to flee the violence in South Sudan could starve, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying that fighting had interrupted the planting season and cut off supply...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Palestinian Authority said Monday it had asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to set a date for submitting the case files pertaining to the settlements and war crimes lawsuits against Israel to the court.

A senior Iranian official said on Monday his country was ready to help confront Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who have seized the Iraqi city of Ramadi, and that he was certain the city would be "liberated". "If th...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Syrian legislator said the US will soon shift its energy policy and start replacing Saudi Arabia with Iran for supplying crude oil as Riyadh's anti-democratic and reactionary actions are growing increasingly costly...

Hürriyet correspondent Çınar Oskay and photojournalist Sebati Karakurt write about the unfortunate league final for Tractor Sazi Tabriz, an Iranian football club with its Azeri fans who sport Turkish nationalist symbols

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the UN to create a safe zone for unloading humanitarian aid to Yemen, adding that Tehran's 4-step Yemen peace initiative is the only logical plan for resolving the cri...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian underlined the important role the UN can shoulder to coordinate the international efforts to send more humanitarian consignments to the crisis-hit Yemen.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Russian analyst took Turkey and Saudi Arabia responsible for the growth of extremism in his country, and said extremism has penetrated into Russia through the promotion of Wahhabism in the country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó described Iran's role in the Middle-East as special and important, and underscored the European countries' enthusiasm for taking practical steps to increase cooperation with Tehran.

Tehran, May 18, IRNA – Bijan Moqanlu, the head coach of Iran National Taekwondo Team offered the cup and championship title of the team, gained in the 22nd edition of the 2015 WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Chelyabinsk, Russia, to ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned of the US and Britain's different plots to create rift among Muslims, and said Washington doesn’t differentiate between the Shiites and Sunnis in ...

Two hundred suspected human smugglers have been detained as part of the Ethiopian government's efforts to stem the number of citizens trying to illegally migrate to Europe, a senior official said. The government is looking for 80 other a...